The origin of capitalism / Ellen Meiksins Wood.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : Monthly Review Press, 1999.Description: vii, 138 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 1583670009
- 330.12/2/09 21
- HB 501 .W915 1999
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | HB 501 .W915 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML22020001 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-131) and index.
Part One: Histories of the transition: 1. The commercialization model and its legacy -- 2. Marxist debates -- 3. Marxist alternatives --
Part Two: The origins of capitalism: 4. The agrarian origin of capitalism -- 5. From agrarian to industrial capitalism: a brief sketch -- 6. Modernity and postmodernity.
"How did capitalism come to be? Few questions of history have as many contemporary political implication as this deceptively simple one. In The Origin of Capitalism, a superb addition to the distinguished tradition of politically conscious history, Ellen Meiksins Wood challenges most existing accounts of capitalism's origins, arguing that they fail to recognized its distinctive attributes and a social system by making its emergence seem natural and inevitable. Only with a proper understanding of capitalism's beginning, Wood holds, can we imagine the possibility of it ending." -- From the book jacket.
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